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April 1 1 985 Daily Times, St. Cloud, Minn. 1 Times Little Falls news office 632-3648 632-3649 Little Falls greenhouse weather station report For the period ending at 5 p.m. March 31, 1985. Sunday One year ago High temperature: 38 High: 54 Low temperature: 27 Low: 1 9 Moisture: trace Moisture: .00 Moisture since Jan.

1 1 .41 Moisture since Jan. 1 1 .65 SECTION LHGGDd Drunken dnmn 7 Lr CSJ jiwMfa. at.si. Spot road checks would prove 6 intoxicated on weekends survey -V What condition would you be in while 4 a.m. on a weekend night? driving between 1 0 p.m.

and 'i i i I -rrrrr I I i 1 1 Times poll Six percent of Central Minnesota adults probably would be found to be driving drunk on any given Friday or Saturday night if they were spot checked, according to a recent Times poll. A cross section of Central Minnesota adults were asked recently whether they would consent to be interviewed as part of a state drinking and driving behavior study. In June researchers will ask law enforcement officers to randomly stop motorists and interview them about their drinking and driving behavior. Those polled were asked whether Fans steamed over botched WrestleMania By KEVIN OKLOBZIJA Timet Sports Writer They came to Halenbeck Hall in search of WrestleMania, these rabid, screaming professional wrestling fanatics. But there were no cheers for muscle-bound Hulk Hogan, no thundering roars for a body slam by Mr.

Wonderful, Paul Orndorff. The only shouting at Halenbeck Sunday afternoon was done at the ticket window, where hundreds of irate fans crowded the entryway and staircase to protest the botched closed-circuit show. "We want refunds, we want refunds," the angry people chanted. "Somebody better call Brenny Funeral Home," warned a threatening man. Because of satellite reception difficulties, WrestleMania was a flop in St.

Cloud. The star-studded, nine-match extravaganza billed by Titan Productions' World Wrestling Federation as an equal to the Super Bowl had blood pressures rising because of anger, not excitement and suspense. The estimated 1,100 to 1,200 people who showed up at Halenbeck, all who dished out $10 and $11 to view the live WrestleMania closed-circuit telecast from New York's Madison Square Garden, usually saw nothing but blurs and shadows on the 10-by-10-foot screen. School district ease contract The Little Falls School District is preparing for teacher contract negotiations by going around in circles. The district is using "quality circles," a program designed to improve communication between employees and management, to ease the tension of contract negotiations, according to Jim OToole, director of human resources for the district.

"In the past, things haven't always worked out well and were adversarial," OToole said of the negotiation process. By having representatives from all parties talking about the process, OToole said he hopes negotiations can proceed better. Quality circles were developed in 1961 by the Japanese to increase production in Japanese industries, according to Jim Hill, superintendent of schools. Japanese workers met regularly in small groups to discuss and make recommendations to management on ways to improve efficiency and modernize production. The school district has modified the quality circles program to fit the dis Public meetings 7 p.m., Upsala City Council, Upsala City Hall.

TUESDAY Events 8 a.m.-noon, Morrison County Public Health Immunization services, St. Joseph's Hall, 808 Third St. SE, Little Falls. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, Open to visitors.Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum, Little Falls.

1 1 :1 5 a.m., Legal services, Little Falls Senior Center. 12:30 p.m., 500 cards and woodcarving, Little Falls Senior Center. 3 p.m., Mae West workout, Little Falls Senior Center. Times photo by Tom Roster Nancy Drange (left) and Joyce Anderson create clothing and crafts with pigskin dyed in Yugoslavia. Women go hog wild with pigskin creations 100 80 60 40 20 0 Age 18-29 30-39 Sober A they would participate in the interview if they were pulled over, and what the chances are that they would be drunk.

Seventy-seven percent of those polled said they would be willing to be interviewed; 15 percent said would not; The images of Hulk Hogan and Mr. were identifiable only for brief moments during the momentous title match, the one refereed by Muhammad Ali and timed by Liberace. "You couldn't see zero," said Craig Moore, Sartell. "You see a little, then there's fuzz and an outline of people. And the sound.

It's like 'fe, bur, en, You can't make nothing out." Moore was among the outraged fans looking for a refund. Some were pulling on a barred ticket window while others banged on a boarded-closed window. "I'm an all-around wrestling fan but I'm getting ripped off," said Paul Stie-gel of St. Cloud. "That's one thing about the AWA (American Wrestling Association, the WWF's competition).

If they promote something, they have it." St. Cloud State University officials at Halenbeck summoned police officers as a precautionary measure at about 1:30 p.m. "We had 20 security people working, but it's easier to talk to someone with an officer next to you," said Denny Lor-sung, who was in charge of building operations. The man responsible for the picture was Everett Underwood of Minneapolis. He said he was hired through a party other than Titan Productions to handle the satellite transmission and picture projection, and that he was working for "two or three different companies." Underwood blamed the poor reception on faulty equipment.

"The equipment was delivered to me and I had it working at the office," said Underwood, who was unable to un- Wrestling2C prepares to talks tension trict's needs, said OToole. The first meeting of the district's quality circle outlined goals for the negotiation proceedings and how to achieve them. Members of the quality circle talked about who should attend the negotiating sessions, time limits of the sessions and other ground rules, OToole said. "Everything that happens in the quality circle happens by consensus agreement," he said. Meetings have gone well, OToole said, adding that he hopes the good feelings will be carried into the negotiations, which will begin sometime this month.

Staples School District has used quality circles in the same manner for two or three years, OToole said. After Hill heard about Staples quality circles, he decided to try it with Little Falls, OToole said. A quality circle facilitator from Control Data Corp. led a workshop in February for Little Falls teachers and administrators, OToole said. "We hope it will work well enough to encourage others to begin quality circles," OToole said.

7 p.m., Adult basic education and General Equivalency Diploma (GED) classes, Little Falls, Swanville and Royalton schools. Public meetings 4:30 p.m., Library board meeting open to the public, Little Falls Carnegie Public Library. 7:30 p.m., Swanville City Council, Swanville Community Hall. 8 p.m., Royalton City Council, Library Hall, 216 First St. SE, Royalton.

ClubsOrganizations TODAY 12:15 p.m., Rotary Club, Pine Edge Inn, Little Falls. 7 p.m., Women of the Moose, Moose Lodge, 606 Seventh St. NE, Little Falls. 7:30 p.m., Little Falls City Council, City 40-49 50-59 Over 60 Littto to drink Drunk and 6 percent said they were not sure. Of the men polled, 42 percent said they would likely be sober, 40 percent said they probably would have had Poll2C Mary Phillips Times columnist Briefly Linda Koll, Route 1, Little Falls, a Royal Cafe waitress for four years, is the Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee's Employee of the Month for March.

Koll, 25, and her husband, Edwin, live on a hobby farm and raise purebred Charolais cattle. "Linda is a very reliable and conscientious worker," said her employer, Ron Rowe, Royal Cafe ownermanager. "She is an asset to the restaurant." Said Koll: "I like the challenge of being a good waitress and of meeting new people in my work. I think I would like to get into restaurant management in the future." As they look toward the future, the Kolls, who have no children, hope to adopt one of their own. "We have our name in and they have told us there is about a year's waiting period." Koll will be a luncheon guest of the Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee today.

She will receive a corsage from Little Falls Greenhouse and her photo, by Silker Studio, will be on display at the Royal Cafe throughout April. Little Falls Community High School Girl and Boy of the Month for March are seniors Michele Sandberg and Pat Girtz, both of Little Falls. Sandberg, daughter of Norman and Eileen Sandberg, is a two-year member of Little Falls Honor Society a four-year member of the Talented and Gifted program and a two-year Knowledge Bowl participant. She is particularly interested in speech, drama and music and is vice-president of Drama Club and a three-year member of Speech Club. She performed in "Tom Jones," "A Midsummer's Night Dream," and "The Miracle Worker" and played in the orchestra for the LFCHS production of The Boy Friend." As a first-chair flutist, she plays in the Select band as well as the pep and stage bands.

She has been a reporter for the "High Flyer" and Flyer yearbook, is a member of American Field Service Club, and an audio-visual assistant. She was in charge of video-taping girls' basketball games. Sandberg is employed as a cashier at Cobom's Grocery and Meats store. Phillips2C Hall, 100 Seventh Ave. NE, Little Falls.

8 p.m., Bethlehem Chapter 74 (OES) Order of Eastern Star, Masonic Hall above Little Falls Printing, 107 First St. SE, Little Falls. 8 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous, open and closed meeting, Al-Anon, above Lovdahl Drug, 105 First St. SE, Little Falls. TUESDAY 6 p.m., Little Falls Weight Watchers meeting, Pine Edge Inn, Little Falls.

7 p.m., Moose Lodge 1587, Moose Lodge Hall, 606 Seventh St. NE, Little Falls. 7:30 p.m., Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (C.O.P.D.) support group, topic, "You Can Do It-Learning to Breathe Better," St. Gabriel's Hospital, Lindbergh Room. 7:30 p.m., Cooties, VFW Post 11 12, 216 First St.

SE, Little Falls. It PAYNESVILLE Nancy Drange and Joyce Anderson are hog wild about pigskin. Not the pigskin you punt, pass and kick but the kind you snip, sew and wear. Give the two Meeker County women a needle, some thread and the skin off the back of any old pig and there is no limit to the clothing and crafts they can create. "You can make virutally anything out of it," Drange said as she sat in Anderson's kitchen, sipping coffee.

She was outfitted in a dark brown leather vest that she made from pigskin. "You can do just about anything with leather that you can with fabric," said Anderson, 40. "You can gather it, pleat it just about anything." The two women, wives of hog farmers, became interested in pigskin about six years ago. They attended a meeting of the Meeker County Porkettes now the Meeker County Pork Council Women and watched a demonstration on how to make roses from pigskin. One thing led to another and their hobby was in bloom.

"We started to make roses and then Joyce and I made Christmas ornaments," said Drange, 30, as she unloaded a box of multi-colored pigskin orna- Along the way MIKE NISTLER Times Stall Writer ments and stuffed pigskin Care Bears. The colorful, cuddly creations can be purchased in shades of wine, grape, dusty rose, fire red, chocolate, fawn, ivory and pearl gray. That's not bad when you consider that the skin on a pig comes in only three colors gray white, Duroc red or black and white, Anderson said. Pigskin, Anderson explained, comes in two forms suede and leather. "It depends on how it's processed," Anderson said.

"The skin is taken off the hogs and sent to Yugoslavia to be processed and dyed." Pieskin is not Drocessed in the Unit ed States, Anderson said, because of in an effort to hoist an automobile from the power canal on the West side, fear ing they would find the bodies of one or more persons trapped in the machine. Meanwhile, Andrew Moser, Las- trup farmer, who smashed the rear window ot his car and reached satety with the help of Barney Ciminiski, was receiving treatment at St. Gabriel's hospital for severe gashes and shock. There were no other persons in the car. 25 years ago: The new Thrifty Drug store opened in Little Falls today.

Located at 102 First St. SE, the store is owned by the Thrifty Drug Co. with headquarters in Brainerd. The local store is the second opened by the firm. strict pollution control regulations.

In Minnesota, pigskin is sold by the five-member Minnesota Pigskin Committee, to which Anderson belongs. Those five women stock the material in their houses and supply pigskin to people who write and request it. The durable material sells for $3.60 a yard, Anderson said. On sale the material can be bought for $2.40 a square yard, she said. And with people making everything from coats and pants to purses and skirts, the orders are becoming more numerous, Anderson said.

There are so many things that can be done with pigskin that Drange and Anderson co-authored a craft book titled "Once Upon a Pig." The booklet describes how to make a myriad of craft items including long- and short-stemmed roses, as well as corsages and boutonnieres of orchids, daffodils and asters, to name just a few. About the only drawbacks to leather are that it needs to be dry cleaned and that you can't fold it. "You never fold leather," Anderson said as she rolled a swatch of it into a bundle. Folding may leave a permanent crease in leather, she added. AlonC)2C Little Falls Bulletin Board TO DAY EvGfltS 7 p.m., Full membership meeting of Hole-in-the-Day players to elect officers, Jerry's Supper Club, Little Falls.

7 p.m., Adult basic education and General Equivalency Diploma (GED) classes, Up-sala, Randall and Pierz schools. 7 p.m., Diabetic outpatient class to discuss "Medications," St. Joseph's Hall, 808 Third St. SE, Little Falls. 7-9 p.m., Monday through Thursday, Open swimming with minimal cost, Little Falls Middle School.

Little Falls newsline DEATHS: No deaths reported Little Falls area births Page 8B Looking back 50 years ago: Look If You Must; You Were Warned This will expose an April fool joke, but Scotty has had enough fun, anyway. For the remainder of the day, anyone who looks into the barrel outside the Electric Maid bake shop expecting to see the largest bats in captivity does it in the face of a warning. City firemen, policemen and volunteers struggled for two hours last night.